Community Assisitant Practitioner

at  Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust

An exciting opportunity for a Community Assistant Practitioner has arisen in the King’s Lynn Community Nursing Team.
If you have the desire and commitment to make a difference in peoples lives this post may be right for you!
We are a friendly, busy team who would welcome an individual looking for a new challenge.

THE POST HOLDER WILL:

1. Assess patients with straightforward requirements based on predetermined department protocols.
2. Prepare for, carry out and monitor assessments and treatments in specified clinical areas, and discharge in line with predetermined department protocols.
3. Apply competency-based treatment techniques/care to patients with specific conditions under the supervision of a qualified practitioner, following a prescribed treatment/care plan.
4. Modify and progress intervention / treatment using own clinical reasoning, notifying a qualified practitioner accordingly.
5. Prepare for and develop individual/group activities to meet defined intervention needs.
6. Monitor patients and promptly alert a qualified practitioner when there are unexpected changes.
7. Demonstrate problem solving, and contribute to the solution, working with colleagues.
8. Make basic judgements on patients’ response to prescribed treatment, and report findings to a qualified practitioner.
9. Plan and prioritise own visits to delegated patients and ensure these are documented in personal work diary.
10. Ensure patient held records are completed for each visit, and that SystmOne inputting is completed on a daily basis.
11. Where there are barriers to understanding, such as hearing impairment, mental capacity impairment and other difficulties in comprehension, explanations require adjustments in order to gain understanding, consent and concordance.
12. Be required to use tact and persuasive skills in order to gain the patient’s co-operation in their treatment/care/management plan.
13. Liaise with GPs, Social Services, inpatient teams, other allied health care professionals and the voluntary sector to ensure identified needs are met and care co-ordinated appropriately.
14. Communicate with patients/carers by exchanging factual information, reassurance, tact and empathy.
15. Establish and maintain appropriate working relationships with colleagues, patients, carers, and other health care professionals.
16. Demonstrate dexterity and coordination when undertaking treatment of patients where accuracy is important, e.g. taking blood sugars, venepuncture, wound care.
17. Be responsible for ensuring equipment is used safely, following appropriate training, and that it is maintained appropriately.
18. Contribute to the requisitioning of supplies and equipment through electronic ordering systems.
19. Work with qualified practitioners with group work/clinics as required.
20. Demonstrate an awareness and understanding of consent, and gain consent as appropriate following department policy.
21. Share responsibility for indirect patient contact tasks, such as, answering telephones, arranging appointments, processing referrals and inputting activity data.
22. Will be exposed to bodily fluids, infected material, blood products on a daily basis, therefore must utilise universal precautions and adhere to infection control policies.
    A full copy of the Job Description / Person Specification can be found in the attached documents

Please refer the Job description for details